| AJCC | American Joint Committee on Cancer |
| CRC | Colorectal cancer |
| CRCS | Colorectal cancer survival |
| ICD-10 | International Disease Classification 10th Revision |
| KM | Kaplan-Meier |
| MCN | Managed Clinical Network |
| NRS | National Records of Scotland |
| NoSCAN | North of Scotland Cancer Network |
| PHS | Public Health Scotland’s |
| PBPP | Public Benefit and Privacy Panel |
| RECORD | REporting of studies Conducted using Observational Routinely collected health Data |
| SCAN | South of Scotland Cancer Network |
| SIMD | Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation |
| SMR06 | Scottish Morbidity Record 06 |
| SMR01 | Scottish Morbidity Record 01 |
| UK | United Kingdom |
| WoSCAN | West of Scotland Cancer Network |